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Selling a bunch of Drone / RC stuff

For sale:

- 3dr GPS module

- Ardupilot 2.6 autopilot

- Hexa Frame(with a few broken legs)

- diydrones Motors/props (860kv motor)

- Spektrum DX6 transmitter

- Spektrum AR6210 reciever with satellite

- diydrones Power Distribution board

- 2 xbee (433mhz) wit

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A few questions before my first flight.

Hi, I just purchased a pixhawk, but decided I'd go ahead and try out my APM2.6 first since it's been collecting dust. I'm using the 3dr Hexa frame.

I've flow rc planes and variable pitch helicopters, but have no experience with multi-rotor copters o

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[solved]No output on APM 2 purple board.

I have tried everything and I can't get my servos to do anything. I just got the board a couple weeks ago and hadn't had a chance to mess with it until now. The servos work fine when plugged directly receiver but when APM 2 is plugged in they do noth

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HD video and camera control zoom remotely?

Does anyone know of any good quality small cameras that will output SD video while recording HD video(Like the gopro).... I would like to set up stabilize and PTZ(I believe APM and APM 2.0 can stabilize)

But I need to find a camera which has high qual

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FLB?

For those of you already using the Ardu-pilot Traditional Helicopter, I have a few questions.

 

1. Can it be used with a flybarless Helicopter?

2. If so, does it compare to the other FBL control systems out there(Only talking about stability, no autonom

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TX manual control with APM and elevons.

I'm currently testing APM at my desk using an elevon setup. Currently, I am only using a 2 position switch, 1 position being manual, and 1 being stabilize. Dx6i default settings for plane.


When in stabilize mode, moving the APM/Shield works correctly

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Flying wing yaw control

Can APM be programmed for non-standard yaw control? Of course it can be, but how hard will it be?


I'm building a flying wing which will not have a rudder.

I plan on controlling yaw by adding drag to a either wing which will point the nose in that direc

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6 cell battery

What all additional things will I have to do if using a 6 cell battery. I'm assuming I cannot use APM to monitor voltage. It is also higher voltage than AMP can handle. I'm sure the reciever would put out less though? I'm just a little confused about

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xbee wiring

Where can i get the connector on the end of the ftdi cable? I would like to have a cable with this connector on both ends which would connect the xbee to the APM without using 4 separate wires(instead i want 1 4 conductor wire). This will make things

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Using rudder ch to pan PTZ camera

If i'm flying a plane w/out a rudder, I could hook up the rudder to a PTZ camera(pan). This of course would work just fine for panning the camera.


Question is, if i enable rudder, can i enable it only for manual input? So that when i used ardupilot mo

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UHF Long Range TX/RX (HAM required)

Haven't seen much about this mentioned on the website yet. I did see one person throw one up for sale with no replies. Looks like it would give ranges farther than 1.3, 900, 2.4 etc. It requires a HAM license, but that doesn't seem like it would be h

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GPS for UGV

Is there a recommended GPS unit for UGV's? Does the IMU work well enough with regular GPS modules to keep a vehicle on the road?

I'm just wondering if i were to program a rc car to go around a large track, what would i need so that it would not go off

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